Class

Date
2004
Advisor
Instructor
Source Title
Print ISSN
Electronic ISSN
Publisher
SAGE Publications, Inc.
Volume
Issue
Pages
96 - 99
Language
English
Type
Book Chapter
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Abstract

The economic and social transformations engendered by industrialization, urbanization, and the emergence of a market economy in the nineteenth century led to processes of class formation, class difference, and class identity that have profoundly shaped definitions of manliness in the United States. A man's position in the process of production, the type of work he performs, and the amount of managerial and entrepreneurial control he exercises are determinants of class status and are intricately connected to notions of masculinity and gender. As an expression of a man's economic status, and of the cultural attitudes and perceptions that it engenders, class and class difference are connected to articulations of gender and manliness in U.S. society.

Course
Other identifiers
Book Title
American Masculinities: A Historical Encyclopedia
Keywords
Men's Studies, Deskilling, Industrialization, Masculinities, Middle class, Postindustrialism, Working class, Working men
Citation